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One thing I'd add; if anyone is going to write anything on Usenet, say
like a wite up of how my suggestions turn out, it's a good idea to proof
read the text before hitting send. The kind of punctuation a fuckwit
like me 'just types with' is horrible - it doesn't even scan when I read
it back to myself.

Giving up drinking has made me notice this. :-/

 

DUKW?

 

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HTH

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, simonk said:

It is fun. Don't let the freeboard thing put you off. It leaves from
right outside the London eye just off York road. About eight quid a
ticket IIRR.

 

Absolutely. Costs 11-12 quid a head, for adults, and you think: "****,
that's a lot for half an hour or so" and you get to the ground and
realise it was a bargain.

Oh, and the copper on duty outside Madame Tussaud's is a waxwork. Punch
him in the gob and call him a ****, for proof. Everyone does.

 

and Vinopolis...

 

others have suggested a good range of things.

But what does your bird actually like?

A few have recommended the Tate Modern, but if she's in any way arty,
don't forget the National Gallery, at Trafalgar Square - this is also
free to get into and has fuckloads of "real" art.

You don't have old buildings on the Island do you? If you're
interested in those, and are visiting the Tate Modern, walk across the
footbridge and keep going in a straight line - you'll come to St.Pauls
and Paternoster Square - nice contrast of pretty old and very new
architecture. Also, loads of old Hawksmoor churches etc. around the
city.

If she's not into that sort of thing at all, then just take the bitch
shopping, though I'd try Covent Garden/Seven Dials rather than Oxford
street unless you want either of a) shops you can get anywhere else or
b) pikey "bargain" shops with some "cockney" wanker offering "great
deals" of a shitty saucepan set and dodgy camera, your's for only 50
quid, cuttin my own throat, inneye?...

 

Yeah, London Eye is great. Look for the twin TV masts of Ally Pally to
the north and Crystal Palace to the south. And it can act as a good
starting point for a very interesting and non-touristy tour:

Along the South Bank to the east from London Eye (that's away from
Waterloo) there's the National Theatre with a big bookfair out on
stalls (under cover), MOMI, Hayward's Gallery, and further along,
great views of St. Paul's. Trot along to Gabriel's Wharf for
food/drink/new age knick-knack shops. I've walked all the way along to
Tower Bridge - this walk takes in the Tate Modern, the Globe Theatre,
the replica Golden Hind, Southwark Cathedral (older and more
interesting than you would think) and Borough Market (smoked eels,
exotic olives, free range bacon, organic vegs etc.), with a tiny
detour to the George Inn (Elizabethan, galleried), London Bridge,
Tower Bridge (The Tower, HMS Belfast, London Dungeon (if it's still
open)). Then you could get a boat back up or go on to Bermondsey and
the Mayflower. Or, from The Tower, you are into the City, the
Monument, St Paul's etc.
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, darsy

darsy in "new man" shocka!

(Snip)

Normal service has now been resumed.

 

Of course, you could always take her up th Oxo Tower in the evening.

 

probably a reasonable stereotype, but, as usual, inapplicable to
invididuals. I went to the Cabinet War Rooms with my ex, and we both
found it fascinating. Mind you, there's no actual guns there.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, sweller

www.gungirls.com

 

http://www.warnography.com (not 100% work safe)

 

ooh, good call that man!

 

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Fantastic stuff, Ginge, you'd never guess you've never been there!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Power Grainger

darsy, you've pulled.

 

I wish I'd never been there. Some of my most hated projects were in
London.

 

it's definitely worth a visit.

http://www.vinopolis.co.uk/ for the uninformed.

 

tch. tch.